Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science: With Lists of the Most Approved Authors, Including the Best Editions of the Classics ; Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities and the Higher Classes in Schools ; in Two Volumes. 1Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Withehall; J. Parker and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1806 - 564 oldal |
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xii. oldal
... Source . The most rational fyftem of the Origin of Speech accords with the Scriptural account of Mofes . - Hieroglyphics and Painting . - Alphabetical Characters are the most perfect reprefentation of ideas - their Origin and Progrefs ...
... Source . The most rational fyftem of the Origin of Speech accords with the Scriptural account of Mofes . - Hieroglyphics and Painting . - Alphabetical Characters are the most perfect reprefentation of ideas - their Origin and Progrefs ...
xiv. oldal
... Sources of argument . II . The different kinds of Style . III . The ornaments of a Compofition . IV . Method . V. Propriety of Action and Delivery . The eloquence of ancient and moden times . DEMOSTHENES the chief example to be ...
... Sources of argument . II . The different kinds of Style . III . The ornaments of a Compofition . IV . Method . V. Propriety of Action and Delivery . The eloquence of ancient and moden times . DEMOSTHENES the chief example to be ...
xxi. oldal
... SOURCES OF OUR NATIONAL PROSPERITY , & c . CHAP . I. AGRICULTURE HAS been esteemed an object of great importance both in ancient and modern times . Eminent Writers upon the subjec -Heliod - Xenophon , & c . — It has flourished most in ...
... SOURCES OF OUR NATIONAL PROSPERITY , & c . CHAP . I. AGRICULTURE HAS been esteemed an object of great importance both in ancient and modern times . Eminent Writers upon the subjec -Heliod - Xenophon , & c . — It has flourished most in ...
193. oldal
... Sources of Argument . The bafis of all eloquence is invention . This faculty , strictly speaking , relates to difcovery rather than creation , and muft be understood to fignify new affociations of thofe ideas which had been previously ...
... Sources of Argument . The bafis of all eloquence is invention . This faculty , strictly speaking , relates to difcovery rather than creation , and muft be understood to fignify new affociations of thofe ideas which had been previously ...
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Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal ... Henry Kett Nincs elérhető előnézet - 1806 |
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